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Addressing Your Cancer Risk

Publication Date:

Monday, May 8, 2017

In the year 2014, over 1,600 Americans died from cancer, and today one in every four deaths within the US are cancer-linked. Recently, research has shown that where you live plays a huge role in determining how much you're at risk of cancer.

The probability of contracting this disease depends on multiple factors: primarily genetic and environmental exposures. Being exposed to poor environmental conditions over long periods of time can damage the DNA structure and gene function. Such conditions could also lead to systemic inflammation and cause problems with hormones as well.

The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (P30 ES006694) is a Unit of the Center for Toxicology, at the College of Pharmacy, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. We also acknowledge the people – past, present, and future – of the Tohono O'odham Nation, on whose traditional lands we study and work.